Weekend Update

Breaking news: Olivia now has enough hair for some sweet bed head!

Since the kid was fairly bald as a newborn, I consider this to be a major milestone.

And now onto other matters...

Against my better judgement.

And because I was extremely sleep deprived and have a child who really doesn't like to bed fed by others.

I let Olivia attempt to feed herself her breakfast this morning.

It wasn't pretty. I think that the spoon is a skill that's going to take a long time to master!


She finally gave up on the spoon altogether and resorted to using her fingers. Good call, O!


The aftermath. Followed directly by a trip to the bathtub for a good soakin'.


We followed up this experience with our own usual messy Sunday breakfast: pancakes!
Doug's best sexy pancake model pose.


As for the rest of the weekend, on Saturday we hosted a happy hour with the families from my mom's group. Here's me & my girl getting ready for the festivities.


It's always fun to get the babies together & torture them with a photo session on the couch.


A few fun random shots...

Olivia's latest, greatest, super happy cheeser face. So awesome.


Fun times with Uncle Chris on the couch. She loooves him!


Hope everyone had a great weekend!

P.S. I wrote this blog post from my newly inherited Mac Pro, using my HUGE new screen. It rocks. Thanks Doug!!!

We had some good fun monkeying around on the guest bed today.

Amazing how the simplest things can be so much fun with a little one!

Recent Happenings

I am clearly very, very behind on blogging! This is because I've been pretty bad about taking photos in the last few months. In fact, my mom came last weekend and we didn't really take any photos of us together. But it was a fabulous weekend, just without the pics to prove it.

Anyhoo, I'm resolving to do more photo-taking (and to be better about blogging). So here's the happenings 'round Casa Perry over the last few days.

We had a pretty crazy Saturday night. And by pretty crazy I mean that we finally moved O into the "big girl" bathtub. My, how our definition of a fun Saturday evening has changed :).

She thought that it was pretty fantastic.

That is, until she found herself sitting on the drain. Ouch.

In other developments, Olivia has finally figured out how to feed herself little bits of food. This rocks because she has NO interest in being spoon-fed. She still doesn't have any teeth, so her diet is pretty limited.

We've had a run of gorgeous weather here in Washington. Perfect weather for fun in the park!

We had a pretty fun weekend here at Casa Perry. So fun that we only took pictures with the little camera and most of them turned out like junk :(. But I know that you Olivia-followers are waiting for a blog update, so here's what I salvaged.

Saturday night we had Olivia's favorite new friend Carter over. She has a total crush on the li'l man. Since they both refused to go to bed like we had planned, the two of them had a movie date (Baby Einstein, of course) while we adults enjoyed our dinner.

Yes, there was hand holding. Olivia is a rather forward little thing!

We hosted the Superbowl here on Sunday. I didn't take any decent pictures of the party, but I managed to capture the best part of it all: my Valentine's butter cookies. Yum.

Best. Butter. Cookie. Recipe. Ever. Nigella Lawson Butter Cookies.

Today was my turn to host my weekly mom's group. Here's some of the ladies and their little ones...

Olivia, once again, attacked poor Carter. She's diving in for a kiss here... She's quite smitten with him!